I started listening to metal somewhere around 2001-2002 with Metallica's Black Album, then S&M and most of others except for Ride the Lightening, IIRC.Then Manowar, Cradle of Filth, Dimmu Borgir, Behemoth, Emperor, Marduk, etc.

I remember that back then I was in really bad shape mentally and basically, had no friends after going through 8 years in sabotage centre disguised as primary school and then one year in sabotage centre disguised as private high school.I only started having normal classes in, like 2000 when I went to a public high school, but I had really hard time getting to know people after all I went through. But when I got into metal, I finally met some cool people who were into metal, rock, fantasy, sci-fi, martial arts, cRPGs, all these cool things.

I kinda began distancing myself from black metal as lots of bands out there are pornsick or social Darwinist or whatever.

AranaszarSzuur wrote:I remember that back then I was in really bad shape mentally and basically, had no friends after going through 8 years in sabotage centre disguised as primary school and then one year in sabotage centre disguised as private high school.

I had a very similar experience around the same time period.

AranaszarSzuur wrote:I kinda began distancing myself from black metal as lots of bands out there are pornsick or social Darwinist or whatever.

I have flirted with black metal on and off; I like the sound and (sometimes) the artwork, but generally I don't care for either the "Hail Satan!" nonsense, nor the social Darwinist stuff which comes out now and then.

I'm into atmospheric black metal these days -- it generally captures the sound, atmosphere and artwork I like, but without the extreme ideologies often associated with that genre.